Werner Drewes, “Large and Small Circle,” 1934
Werner Drewes (1899-1985) was a German-American painter and printmaker, born in 1899 in Canig, Germany. Since his death in 1985, recognition of Drewes’s important role and impact on twentieth century American art has steadily grown among collectors and curators. A student at the Bauhaus during the 1920s, Drewes, along with Lyonel Feininger and László Moholy-Nagy, was one of the first artists to convey the groundbreaking concepts of that school to the United States via his painting, printmaking and teaching.